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Hill Art Foundation Architectural Photography 05 (1)
HAF Minjung Kim 2020 Inst 03 DO YOU HAVE A BLANK OF THIS VIEW (1)
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These days we are distanced from material encounters with canvas and paint as we increasingly experience paintings mediated by computer screen or iPhone. With less opportunities to see a painting’s textures and gestures in person, along with its multiple removals from the actual object, abstract painting can be thought of in a different way—it encompasses art that has become untethered from the real world as a concrete referent. In this context, I am considering the word “abstraction” to go beyond non-representation to embody the conceptual aporia of painting today. It is where gesture and form are subsumed by the mise en abyme of mediated life: the painting object always embedded in the field of abstraction.

My selections intimate this construction of painting as an image rendered in a wireframe world. Think about a single painting able to be reframed and resized to conform to an image search page, a vertical scroll in a feed, or print-on-demand canvas. The works in this online exhibition heighten our awareness of the condition of painting and its transmediations. The grid motif and its organizing logic in these works have a self-reflexive presence with your encounter on screen.

These abstractions are made by set methodologies or instructions. Technical standards and rigid frameworks materialize as grids, linear patterns and digital moiré with infinite permutations. Some of the works operate between restrictive and flexible parameters which echo the qualities of the digital medium but also the imperative of contemporary life. Agnes Martin said,”[painting] is not what is seen. It is what is known forever in the mind.” Here, another platform for infinite availability.

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Sol LeWitt, Irregular Curves, 2000. Gouache on paper, 60 1/2 × 59 3/4 inches (153.67 × 151.77 cm). © 2021 The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Courtesy of Pace Gallery.
About the Curator

Using the mediums of sculpture, painting, and installation, Mika Tajima’s work is about control, performance, and freedom. She analyzes the evolving and amorphous zones that intersect productivity and leisure, examining how human behavior and emotional experiences have been transformed within the long sweep of capitalist development. Tajima’s research-based practice explores the technologies and ideologies that shape human behavior through conditioning everyday life. Read more…

Side profile of a woman with hair in a braid looking afar.

The Foundation’s virtual exhibition series invites artists and curators to select 10–15 works from The Hill Collection that activate each other in new and unexpected ways. Without the usual obstacles of installation, these exhibitions give us the opportunity to see the collection in a new light.

All renderings by Matthew Herrmann.

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